Spotlight: Supermarket Street Sweep

December 3rd was a beautiful Saturday afternoon at the Food Bank. We had a clear sky, the sun was shining, and a father and son arrived on a tandem bicycle…pulling four full shopping carts full of food to donate! Cargo race winners and tandem cyclists Eric Downing and his seven-year old son Cooper Sprocket Downing [...]

Great Turkey returns in Marin

The Great Turkey has been a Marin holiday institution since 1992, sitting pretty on its hay bales at the Town Center Corte Madera, while accepting donations of food, cash, and hugs from children and the young at heart. “I am really surprised the ‘World’s Largest Turkey’ is still going strong!” says Lead Turkey Architect John [...]

SF legal community provides over $3,000,000 worth of much-needed food, thanks to Food from the Bar

The San Francisco legal community really raised the bar in 2011, breaking all their previous records by bringing in $513,783 and 13,386 pounds of food to help end hunger in San Francisco and Marin. Since the San Francisco Food Bank can turn every dollar donated into $6 worth of food, that adds up to well over [...]

Pudge is worth his weight in food for the hungry

People come up with all sorts of creative ways to collect food for the San Francisco Food Bank. Case in point, Valerie Lo, who invited friends (both human and canine) over for a party. The goal? To match twice the weight of her bulldog, Pudge, in donated food. Luckily, Pudge is – well – pudgy. [...]

Bike Riders Bring in 7,507 Pounds of Food!

We’re used to having big tractor-trailer trucks roll up to the San Francisco Food Bank’s loading dock – that’s how most of the 36.5 million pounds of food moving through our warehouse this year will arrive. But last Saturday, 7,507 pounds of food showed up on some very different wheels – bicycles! It was thanks [...]

Hunger Takes Over the Headlines

This Thanksgiving, the San Francisco Food Bank made sure that 30,000 households enjoyed a fresh, healthy holiday dinner. But shocking news stories about hunger in the Bay Area – and across our country – underscore the fact that more and more people every day are seeking help. In the past two years, San Francisco has [...]

SF Food Bank’s Gary Maxworthy at the White House

Gary Maxworthy, a San Francisco Food Bank board member and architect of the Farm to Family program, recently was invited to the White House. Here is his report: I received an invitation to The White House and four days later, June 30, I was there in the East Room, listening to President Barack Obama announce [...]

A Giant day for fundraising!

This past Sunday, more than 60 San Francisco Food Bank staff and volunteers turned out to collect donations of cash and food at the “Giants Strike Out Hunger Food Drive” at AT&T Park. Anybody who donated $5 or 5 food items got a free Giants tumbler, courtesy of AT&T. Before the “Battle of the Bay’ [...]

First Recession Relief Grocery Pantry Opens!

Today San Francisco Food Bank launched the first of five Recession Relief Grocery Pantries slated to open over the next few weeks. These new pantries are specially designed to serve people hit by the recession who have not accessed food assistance before. To get the word out, we began an ad campaign this Monday, asking [...]